Apache::ASP provides ASP for free. Given the issues the author has with PHP (and there are plenty of other complaints beyond those he cites) it would seem that having ASP on a free platform would be an ideal combination for him.
perhaps thier best bet is to build a new core business around Linux, rather than to hang onto their old core business till it is totally eaten.
Perhaps they should build a new core business, but it should be in something totally different, like watches or sunglasses. Clearly WindRiver's niche isn't in predicting the directions of the IT community or responding to that communities whining about stupid things like bugs, Linux, and drivers.
Other companies have made such radical changes to survive and thrive for longer. Commodore made watches before they got into PET's and VIC's. My father actually had a cheesy digital watch they made eons before.
Considering that WindRiver hasn't made such a radical change it seems doubtful they'll survive. It's sort of sad to watch, but it seems really doubtful that this move won't simply hasten their demise. And I don't know anybody who will mind.
Given that this guy was hoping to avoid restrictions, I would recommend avoiding Speakeasy like the plague. Their policies are very arbitary. I once ended up with a tech support person on the weekend who couldn't fathom what traceroute was. For typical home users, that may be acceptable, but for the/. crowd, you want Megapath.
Heck we have the Templeton prize out there (more than the Nobel, no less) for best achievement in religion (christianity specifically, methinks)
Bzzt. Wrong-o. The Templeton Prize is for progress in "Spiritual Realities". While Christians are leading purveyors of the confusion that their religion is the spiritual reality, that's a far cry from what the prize is actually about, which is quite interesting really. Templeton in particular makes it clear that the goals are non-denominational and universalist. Wired had a good article about it a while back.
It's paricularly amusing to compare the relative lack of controversey that Templeton has experienced with the soap opera in the Salon article. Either Templeton was smart enough to keep closer management of the process or religious and spiritual researchers are just more civil than computer scientists.
Who cares anyway? I don't think BMW or Mercedes will ever "take 100% of the market"... what's so bad about being the minority, as long as it's a quality product?
When you need service stations and motorways to make sure they work for your car there will be a lot fewer brands of cars in common use.
Well, it is also 95% of chances to be in jail for them if they get caught because it surely sounds like terrorism to me, spreading bad things and gathering info against your will.
That's because you're not part of the "establishment". The rules don't apply to the establishment. Rational thought, which you're exhibiting, certainly doesn't come into play.
Terrorism is what the guys we don't like are doing.
What's to stop a corporation from running non-linux applications on citrix, thus cutting their workstation licensing and support costs dramatically?
Most smart people can eventually figure Linux out for themselves. I've had a few clients go for Citrix and none of them every managed to survive for long without brining in expensive Citrix consultants. It's even worse than Oracle in that regard. There's a cadre of enlightened Citrix people and they protect their knowledge well. Given the nature of commercial software it isn't surprising.
ASP script on a Win2k box, tied to an Access DB, which runs MySQL queries, spitting out XML which is parsed in Director. Does this guy actually realizes what he has written?
Let's just hope that this wasn't for a software engineering course.:) Or NYU grads are in for a rude awakening after graduation.
I find it truly amazing that you could say "All religions have the same kernel of truth to them - it's up to the people to figure them out." on/. and yet no one has mentioned Joseph Campbell in twelve replies. This man invented comparative mythology! In short, all religions convey mythology in different ways, but Joseph Cambell made it quite clear that there is one common human mythology underlying all religions, not to mention literature, film, and music.
Christianity and Islam have the dubious honors of being religions which convey this single common human mythology in a way that causes a lot of confusion. The splintering into sects that Christianity has gone through for hundreds of years is the result of people trying to debug Christianity without doing a total rewrite. If we compared religions to computers, Christianity would land somewhere between ENIAC and a Vic 20. Modern man has plenty of cultural basis to use the teachings of the Vic 20, but two thousand year old stories that often weren't well-written to start with don't help us much surprisingly enough.
Who's up for starting a new religion project on sourceforge? I really don't think we can fail any worse than our predecessors.:-)
and this includes computers *personally* owned by faculty.
I assume you mean owned by faculty - but onsite at work? If so - why wouldn't they be treated like any other computer onsite.
Machines brought onto campus could have anything on them. The licensing for those machines is the responsibility of the person that owns the machine and brought it on campus. The university isn't responsible for the machine in any other way, why should it be responsible for the software licenses on it?
Given the horrendous depreciation of machines I think this is a good motive for giving all tenured faculty ownership of the computer on their desk. The faculty are the worst pirates anyway. Tee-hee.
Open source drivers are better than UDI ones. The FSF has made a clear stand against UDI because of it's potential harm to free software development.
Real drivers are better than UDI ones. Many people are willing to overlook the performance problems to get support for more devices, but considering that we have support for most devices now, providing an easy out for those vendors who haven't given in under linux's market presense seems a waste of our efforts.
The kernel bloat introduced by UDI is pretty significant.
The best part of the whole article was the closing line:
Scientology's complaint set off a
flurry of linking to the critics' site, pushing it up two
spots to No. 2 in the search results for "Scientology" -
just below the church's official site.
Bru-hahahaha!
If we keep going we can push the critic's sites to #1-#10 and land the official scientology site on page 2 of the listings.:-)
I run Solaris under vmware when I need to do something in it, and I don't have to spend anything extra on hardware or have a box taking up space dedicated to an OS that's useless to me 99.9% of the time.
The register ran this months ago. Sony has not chosen to say anything yet about this actually happening. It makes slashdot's choice of having a The Media topic instead of, say, journalism a bit ironic. Oh, well.
The document he built describing what was coming with mod_perl 2.0 hasn't even been updated since Aug 2001! Many people would like to see somesort of status message. Does anyone know how well the cvs version works? Are there any major bugs?
To further complicate things, some universities claim the IP rights to anything developed by students there.
Beautiful! Let's get some student who's under a nasty employment contract and goes to such a school to write some really great software. Then we'll lure the university and the company into fighting over who actually owns the software. Maybe it will consume so many lawyers that the rest of us can breath easier for a while.
You'd have to maintain the user clients - which will still break down - and the server nodes on top of this.
But the maintenance amounts to - (1) replace broken machine with spare (2) toss bad machine on pile of broken machines until there's free time or you run out of spares. The amount of time the user is down due to the maintenance goes from averaging around a day at some places I've seen to being around half an hour.
Performance will always be worse with a centralized solution than with user workstations, because you have no local disk for fast scratch space (used by many applications in the environments I've worked in).
If the application is running on the server then it has local scratch space.:-) The number of people happily running Citrix is testimony to the value of running applications as close to the actual servers as possible.
The ability of these systems to run the client with good user-perceived performance on workstations that are utterly unusable by Windows or Linux as a full-blown clients provides a nice counter example too.
> Is certification really that important vs. having the experience anyways?
It depends on what matters to you. If finding a good job is more important than finding any old job, then certifications are useless. Sadly most people get jobs from knowing the right people.
Some of the smartest IT hiring folks I know throw out the folks with certifications first. I heard one say "if somebody has all this time to do certifications they must not have been doing any real work." Here, here!
Some people just like being the big fish in a small pond. These guys obviously believe in KDE and will plug along long past the point that it makes any sense. They totally dismissed that Gnome had any office applications and were very appreciative that the GNU idealists finally accepted them all in one breath. Are KDE people going to become like Amiga users? These guys remind me a lot of Amiga Persecution Complex.
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I find that two 19" monitors both at 1280x1024 helps me wait for the decent sized LCD prices to come down.
Apache::ASP provides ASP for free. Given the issues the author has with PHP (and there are plenty of other complaints beyond those he cites) it would seem that having ASP on a free platform would be an ideal combination for him.
Imagine everybody in your neighborhood contributing to a Beowulf cluster. Bru-hahahaha.
Perhaps they should build a new core business, but it should be in something totally different, like watches or sunglasses. Clearly WindRiver's niche isn't in predicting the directions of the IT community or responding to that communities whining about stupid things like bugs, Linux, and drivers.
Other companies have made such radical changes to survive and thrive for longer. Commodore made watches before they got into PET's and VIC's. My father actually had a cheesy digital watch they made eons before.
Considering that WindRiver hasn't made such a radical change it seems doubtful they'll survive. It's sort of sad to watch, but it seems really doubtful that this move won't simply hasten their demise. And I don't know anybody who will mind.
Both are examples of ISP cluelessness that people searching for competence should avoid.
Given that this guy was hoping to avoid restrictions, I would recommend avoiding Speakeasy like the plague. Their policies are very arbitary. I once ended up with a tech support person on the weekend who couldn't fathom what traceroute was. For typical home users, that may be acceptable, but for the /. crowd, you want Megapath.
Bzzt. Wrong-o. The Templeton Prize is for progress in "Spiritual Realities". While Christians are leading purveyors of the confusion that their religion is the spiritual reality, that's a far cry from what the prize is actually about, which is quite interesting really. Templeton in particular makes it clear that the goals are non-denominational and universalist. Wired had a good article about it a while back.
It's paricularly amusing to compare the relative lack of controversey that Templeton has experienced with the soap opera in the Salon article. Either Templeton was smart enough to keep closer management of the process or religious and spiritual researchers are just more civil than computer scientists.
When you need service stations and motorways to make sure they work for your car there will be a lot fewer brands of cars in common use.
- Well, it is also 95% of chances to be in jail for them if they get caught because it surely sounds like terrorism to me, spreading bad things and gathering info against your will.
That's because you're not part of the "establishment". The rules don't apply to the establishment. Rational thought, which you're exhibiting, certainly doesn't come into play.Terrorism is what the guys we don't like are doing.
Most smart people can eventually figure Linux out for themselves. I've had a few clients go for Citrix and none of them every managed to survive for long without brining in expensive Citrix consultants. It's even worse than Oracle in that regard. There's a cadre of enlightened Citrix people and they protect their knowledge well. Given the nature of commercial software it isn't surprising.
Let's just hope that this wasn't for a software engineering course. :) Or NYU grads are in for a rude awakening after graduation.
# hdparm -tT /dev/md0 /dev/md0
/dev/md0:
/dev/md0:
Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.50 seconds =256.02 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 1.20 seconds = 53.54 MB/sec
Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.50 seconds =257.02 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 1.19 seconds = 53.98 MB/sec
I certainly have no complaints.
Christianity and Islam have the dubious honors of being religions which convey this single common human mythology in a way that causes a lot of confusion. The splintering into sects that Christianity has gone through for hundreds of years is the result of people trying to debug Christianity without doing a total rewrite. If we compared religions to computers, Christianity would land somewhere between ENIAC and a Vic 20. Modern man has plenty of cultural basis to use the teachings of the Vic 20, but two thousand year old stories that often weren't well-written to start with don't help us much surprisingly enough.
Who's up for starting a new religion project on sourceforge? I really don't think we can fail any worse than our predecessors. :-)
Given the horrendous depreciation of machines I think this is a good motive for giving all tenured faculty ownership of the computer on their desk. The faculty are the worst pirates anyway. Tee-hee.
Bru-hahahaha!
If we keep going we can push the critic's sites to #1-#10 and land the official scientology site on page 2 of the listings. :-)
I run Solaris under vmware when I need to do something in it, and I don't have to spend anything extra on hardware or have a box taking up space dedicated to an OS that's useless to me 99.9% of the time.
Doug finally released a beta.
The register ran this months ago. Sony has not chosen to say anything yet about this actually happening. It makes slashdot's choice of having a The Media topic instead of, say, journalism a bit ironic. Oh, well.
The document he built describing what was coming with mod_perl 2.0 hasn't even been updated since Aug 2001! Many people would like to see some sort of status message. Does anyone know how well the cvs version works? Are there any major bugs?
Beautiful! Let's get some student who's under a nasty employment contract and goes to such a school to write some really great software. Then we'll lure the university and the company into fighting over who actually owns the software. Maybe it will consume so many lawyers that the rest of us can breath easier for a while.
My favoriate pages for floppy and CD distros are hosted by a local user group.
Rescue Floppies: http://www.hrlug.org/rescuedisk.html
CD distros: http://www.hrlug.org/cddistro.html
But the maintenance amounts to - (1) replace broken machine with spare (2) toss bad machine on pile of broken machines until there's free time or you run out of spares. The amount of time the user is down due to the maintenance goes from averaging around a day at some places I've seen to being around half an hour.
Performance will always be worse with a centralized solution than with user workstations, because you have no local disk for fast scratch space (used by many applications in the environments I've worked in).
If the application is running on the server then it has local scratch space. :-) The number of people happily running Citrix is testimony to the value of running applications as close to the actual servers as possible.
The ability of these systems to run the client with good user-perceived performance on workstations that are utterly unusable by Windows or Linux as a full-blown clients provides a nice counter example too.
It depends on what matters to you. If finding a good job is more important than finding any old job, then certifications are useless. Sadly most people get jobs from knowing the right people.
Some of the smartest IT hiring folks I know throw out the folks with certifications first. I heard one say "if somebody has all this time to do certifications they must not have been doing any real work." Here, here!
Some people just like being the big fish in a small pond. These guys obviously believe in KDE and will plug along long past the point that it makes any sense. They totally dismissed that Gnome had any office applications and were very appreciative that the GNU idealists finally accepted them all in one breath. Are KDE people going to become like Amiga users? These guys remind me a lot of Amiga Persecution Complex.